Past Events

Locust swarms pose a major threat to agriculture, notably in North Africa and the Middle East. In the early stages of aggregation, locusts form hopper bands. These are coordinated groups that march in columnar structures that are often kilometers...

In this talk I will survey results related to incidences between points and algebraic curves in dimensions 2,3 and 4, and will concentrate on the problem of incidences between points and restricted families of curves in R^3, e.g, "unit circles" is a...

In this talk, we will look at the question of existence of blowing-up solutions for smooth perturbations of energy-critical elliptic nonlinear Schrödinger equations on a closed manifold. From a result of Olivier Druet, we know that in dimensions...

A spectral method for the solution of integral and differential equations is generally understood to be an expansion of the solution in a Fourier series. Chebyshev polynomials are also often the preferred basis set for many problems. In kinetic...

The University of Calgary Biostatistics Centre (UCBC), a centre within the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, is hosting a day-long event on data visualization. Data visualization shows patterns and complex relationships in data. It is a critical...

Schedule Saturday, March 3, 2018 10:30-11:00 Coffee and breakfast snacks 11:00-12:00 Richard Schoen (U.C. Irvine) 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:30 Christine Breiner (Fordham University) 2:30-3:00 Coffee break 3:00-4:00 Catherine Searle (Wichita State...

We shall survey over the general issue of `specializations which preserve a property', for a parametrized family of algebraic varieties. We shall limit ourselves to a few examples. We shall start by recalling typical contexts like Bertini and Hilbert...

I am working with colleagues on several projects modelling Lithium Ion batteries. Experimental results are fit to simple models of performance and ``State of Health”, a vaguely defined measure of the change of battery characteristics with use and age...

The inverse algebraic approximation is addressed and established the direct and inverse approximation of algebraic polynomials in the Jacobi-weighted Sobolev and Besov spaces. With the approximation theory of algebraic polynomials, we investigate the...

The problems of estimation of state of a high dimensional chaotic system such as the atmosphere or estimation of parameters of models of highly nonlinear real life phenomena involving multiple parameters can both be considered in the Bayesian...